Saturday, March 09, 2013

Chow Champ


Sgt. Herbert P. Allensbach, Forest Hills, N.Y., who was voted best cook in the Ninth Air Force.  He's a whizz with powdered eggs.

YANK 11 March 1945 Continental Edition

Friday, March 08, 2013

Jungle Latrine


One of Howard Brodie's amazing sketches.  From the Library of Congress.

Update-John J. Wilpers Jr.

John J. Wilpers Jr., the Army intelligence officer who helped arrest Hideki Tojo in 1945, dies.

Read the Washington post article HERE

or read the reprint HERE

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

The Five Day Attack on Hastings Ridge

Read the story of The Five Day Attack on Hastings Ridge by Sgt. Mack Morris

Read the story HERE

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Hurry Call

S/Sgt. J. O. Clayton (right) in Noumea, New Caledonia, woke up two Medic Captains, R. O. Moore and H. R. Willard, to cure his dog's convulsions one night. 

YANK 11 March 1945 Continental Edition

Prepping a Rogers' Raider

Not a minstrel show but a night patrol across the Roer impels Pvt. Ed Diamond of Rogers' Raiders to put on lamp-blacking.  This job's a lot different from his Army studies in engineering at Purdue ASTP.

Photo by Sgt. Reg Kenny

YANK 11 March 1945 Continental Edition

The Noise

In the fight for Duren a mortar burst temporarily deafened T/Sgt. John Demeduk, platoon sergeant, at the Roer crossing.

Photo by Sgt. Reg Kenny

YANK 11 March 1945 Continental Edition

Monday, March 04, 2013

Portrait of a Tired Soldier

An army advances because the individual doughs in the line advance.  Most of them keep movig; some of them fall; others, like Pfc. Joseph F. Leradi of Philadelphia, Pa., do their job until weariness is etched in every line of their bodies.  YANK's Pfc. Pat Coffey made this photo at the 80th Division field hospital on the Third Army front.

YANK  11 March 1945 Continental Edition

Cover 11 Mar 1945 Continental Edition

These tank destroyers accompanying the Eighth Infantry Division, First Army, down the main street of Duren, Germany, are the first U. S. armored vehicles to enter the ruined queen city of the Roer.

YANK 11 March 1945 Continental Edition

Saturday, March 02, 2013

Schweinfurt Raid


Read the story about the Schweinfurt Raid in the B-17 Flying Fortress named YANK.  By Sgt. Walter Peters

Read the article HERE